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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mengu" data-source="post: 5447564" data-attributes="member: 65726">As easy as it is to create monsters, Looking at stat blocks, I use maybe 10% straight out of the book, probably 60% scratch built or heavily modified, and the rest have minor modifications. But I have to admit if I look at numbers (instead of stat blocks), that 10% straight out of the book may be significantly higher because I have probably used lots of kobold skirmishers, gnoll marauders and huntmasters, and ogre savages. But then again those numbers maybe balanced by the plethora of minions I've had to scratch build.My opinion on encounter design is that every encounter has its own needs. And monsters straight out of the book alone, usually just don't cut it.</blockquote>